Seeing a lot of very bad Vietnam War takes: the Vietnam War was an allied military assistance mission to the Republic of South Vietnam & in a place that did matter, strategically. There are many arguments for the Vietnam War that cannot be made for the Iraq & Afghanistan wars.
There was always a legitimate Augustinian case for the military effort in Vietnam as it was assisting an already free government in South Vietnam to resist a foreign communist insurgency (the subsequent 2+m refugees bear this out). This was not Iraq or Afghanistan (at all).
The more affluent Baby Boomers concocted the hippy/protest culture to evade conscription for Vietnam. As soon as conscription for Vietnam ended, so, too, ended Boomers protesting that war & so did most of that Hippy culture. The Vietnamese's war still went on. Never be fooled.
The Iraq and (esp) Afghanistan had few redeeming features. Iraq at least matters, strategically. Once broken (further), Iraq had to be saved and stabilised. Quite what 'the plan' was in Afghanistan has never been clear to me. Twenty-plus years of enabling pederastic Warlords?
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